Suowei Xiao’s study explores how different nurturant care jobs become stratified in the emerging market for domestic work in contemporary China, as childcare jobs come to be higher-paid “semi-professions” while elderly care is marginalized and under-compensated.
“’Childcare Experts’ and ‘Wiping Older People’s Ass’: The Stratification in the Domestic Work Market in Contemporary China” Suowei Xiao